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That an interesting observation. I just looked and realized that it is not anywhere, (Project Online or Premise). It looks like Microsoft removed the Personal Settings in 2013. Maybe someone will let us know where to find it.

Thanks Michael for the prompt response. Actually it is available on the Premise version, but not on Project Online...just confirmed in two different Project Online environments.

I am now wondering if there is a setting like Premise settings that can be switched on for Project Online, but I can't seem to find anything related to that settings in SharePoint Admin area for Online version.

Hmm...hopefully all the Project Online SaaS people out there are listening. It is a key feature.

alerts and reminders on-premises can only be set once you specify an SMTP mail server in the central administration PWA settings (changed from 2010). Can you configure this in SMTP in Project Online? If you cannot, you won't be able to set alerts and reminders.

I agree with Adrian and Michael. Without access to Central admin , you won't be able to configure this setting, you might need to consider changing the permission mode to Project server, which will bring back classic view of Project Server settings page.
Again it also depends on whether Office 365 would allow to communicate external SMTP server or not.

If you have test PWA instance of Project online, you might want to test this.

Another options would be reaching out to Microsoft Office 365 support.

Perhaps the reality of this has not settled in for me yet, but am I understanding this correctly? e.g., Team Members (TM) assigned to task(s), when these tasks are published, or when TM submits their status, etc., Project ONLINE will not and can not notify
the affected user(s)?

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